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John Bryant stood by his cubicle in the locker room of Madison Square Garden Thursday night, reeling off a list of great memories — and not disappointing finishes — to his last two seasons. He talked about his pride in wearing the Saint Joseph’s uniform the last four seasons,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The scrapping, clawing fight finally ended with Saint Joseph’s getting caught with a haymaker Tuesday night. Great champions have fallen before at Madison Square Garden. Saint Joe’s did not end as a champ, but coach Phil Martelli believes his team played like one until the final…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Andrew Koeffer sat at the far end of the Saint Joseph’s bench Tuesday night, extremely proud to be wearing his crimson and gray uniform at Madison Square Garden. He only broke a sweat in warm-ups because he did not play in the Hawks’ National Invitation Tournament semifinal game…
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Read on mcall.com →Dwayne Jones was everywhere inside the lane that Saint Joseph’s needed him to be Tuesday night against Memphis at Madison Square Garden. He was on the boards, ripping down rebounds. He was rushing to the left and right side of the lane, blocking and altering shots. Jones was…
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Read on mcall.com →Madison Square Garden could provide the stage for Saint Joseph’s senior guard Pat Carroll to do something Hawks junior point guard Dwayne Lee has not seen too often the last three years. And that’s a Pat Carroll dunk. “You know what? I might have seen him dunk 10 times since…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →For the final time in his Saint Joseph’s career, senior guard Pat Carroll glistened as the student body he’s thrilled so much with his shooting began to chant, “The Hawks will never die.” Just eight seconds remained when Carroll exited the game, a hard-fought National Invitation…
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Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s freshman guard Abdulai Jalloh did not pretend on Saturday night that he knows anything about Holy Cross, or any other Patriot League team. Actually, Jalloh doesn’t know much about any team he hasn’t seen on television, or competed against in the Big 5 or Atlantic…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The stage is not as big as the one Saint Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli and his players danced on last March. But it does not matter that the Hawks are in the National Invitation Tournament as opposed to competing in the NCAAs and it will not matter as long as they keep dancing…
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Read on mcall.com →Members of Villanova’s 1985 national championship team developed a bond that extended way beyond the court. That’s because they were more than just teammates. “It was like a family, a brotherhood, a fraternity, whatever you want to call it,” said Chuck Everson, a reserve center…
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Read on mcall.com →Jackie Adamshick sat silently, her hands clutched as she nervously watched the NCAA women’s selection show on ESPN Sunday night at the Pavilion. Adamshick, a redshirt sophomore from Central Catholic High, did not expect to be disappointed, not with Villanova having posted a…
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Read on mcall.com →Tom Brennan clipped the nets Saturday one final time at Patrick Gymnasium in Burlington, Vermont. Now he’s going dancing one final time in the NCAA Tournament. Brennan, a Phillipsburg native, will not coach past this season, his 23rd overall and 19th at Vermont, an America East…
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Read on mcall.com →Villanova’s players and coaches sat anxiously in front of a big screen television in the Connelly Center Sunday night on the Main Line campus waiting to see who their next opponent will be, where they will play and when they will play. A portion of “Nova Nation” was stationed in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Overtime was so close Friday night. But Villanova did two things it had not done well all game — box out under the boards and grab a rebound. So the Wildcats ended up getting their hearts broken with two-tenths of a second remaining against West Virginia in the Big East…
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Read on mcall.com →The tears have dried and another season of blown chances has faded away for the Lehigh women’s basketball team. For the first time ever, the Mountain Hawks had both the Patriot League player of the year — Jessica DePalo — and the coach of the year — Sue Troyan. But the end of…
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Read on mcall.com →Freedom High officially has a new football coach and athletic director Fred Harris hopes he doesn’t eventually follow in the footsteps of the last two Patriots head coaches. But Jason Roeder, who was formally introduced as the coach to the players and media on Tuesday, doesn’t…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo displayed the same grace when she spoke as she had when she played Saturday afternoon. But she did it with tears in her eyes instead of a smile of her face. Her season-high 30 points had gone for naught because Lehigh squandered a 12-point lead with…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Winning in the playoffs often comes down to who handles the pressure the best, and who bumps and grinds the hardest. That’s what Lehigh senior Jessica DePalo, the Patriot League’s player of the year, did until only one second remained in the tournament quarterfinals against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lehigh coach Sue Troyan has finally earned the Patriot League Coach of the Year award that her star senior Jessica DePalo thought Troyan deserved four years ago. DePalo’s league-best 18.0 points per game, to go with her 5.4 rebounds and 47.9 percent field-goal shooting and…
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Read on mcall.com →This time of the college basketball season, opinions on teams can vary from week-to-week, depending on how those teams play. Good teams don’t falter, suspect ones do. Last week, I touted Lafayette for having won two straight games. Then the Leopards got wiped out by a 71-33…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh did not die easy. And Lafayette refused to die on its own court. The Leopards had an 11-point lead with 1:48 remaining, which dwindled down to one, before settling for an 81-76 victory Saturday afternoon at Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette had lost its previous game by 19…
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Read on mcall.com →Teams that make postseason runs in March usually start to play harder and smarter and win more convincingly at this time of the season. Lafayette has done that in its last two Patriot League games. Teams that have short runs in March usually do what Lehigh has done over its last…
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Read on mcall.com →Drexel senior Danny Hinds experienced the worst drive to the basket of his life Monday night. He jump-stopped and was going up for a layup when his left knee buckled. Tears quickly welled in his eyes as he dropped to the floor during the second half of a Colonial Athletic…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s is making another run at the NCAA Tournament. And the Hawks don’t even control Philadelphia. But that’s the beauty of college basketball because rankings and computers do not determine a team’s fate. Saint Joe’s (12-9) can advance to the “Big Dance” for the third…
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Read on mcall.com →With pens in hand and wearing broad smiles, four Liberty High football players signed letters of intent with Division I-AA and Division II schools Thursday afternoon in a conference room adjacent to Liberty’s main office. Brendan Van Ackeren, who made big plays on both sides of…
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